About around 1339 in Europe, the population was beginning to overpopulate and the food supply and severe economic crisis began to start. In Northwestern Europe the winters were extremely cold and the summers were dry. Due to weather, very low amounts of crops stopped growing, people began to worry. The first historical record of bubonic plague is in Central Asia in 1338/39. It reached China and India by 1346. It infected the Black Sea port of Kaffa by 1347.Says web.cn.edu. This disease lasted supposedly until 1351 but more cases were still reported after that.
Today, it 's best known as the Black Death or the bubonic plague. Medieval people called it the blue sickness and the Great Mortality. The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October …show more content…
Jews were forbidden to work in government and were shunned from most of their towns or villages and had to live on the outskirts of town in places called ghettos. It was only because of their isolation that they did not get the plague so fast but after time Jews began to get sick from the plague as well and then people began to show their responses in other ways.
During the plague it also affected the Artists and musicians at the time. Shortly before the plague music was upbeat but then music was played grimly and art became sober to say. The artist were surrounded by the horrible black death, but on the other hand some artist started to express how they felt through art and music. Many of those artist left alive created paintings and woodcuts that showed an angry God and sometimes demon-like creatures shooting arrows of plague in …show more content…
Many people blamed god for this disease and occurrence of the plague and they thought as if the plague was a punishment for their sins. This really messed up people’s confidence in traditional or conventional beliefs and authority, quickly the church started to suffer many people strayed from the church and blamed them for the plague. People wanted answers from the priests and bishops but they couldn’t provide those answers for they did not know themselves, many of the churches finest leaders began to quit to avoid problems. And as they left their replacements were not as educated and so therefore monasteries ran less educated people. Therefore as the church declined so did the peoples hope for
Today, it 's best known as the Black Death or the bubonic plague. Medieval people called it the blue sickness and the Great Mortality. The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October …show more content…
Jews were forbidden to work in government and were shunned from most of their towns or villages and had to live on the outskirts of town in places called ghettos. It was only because of their isolation that they did not get the plague so fast but after time Jews began to get sick from the plague as well and then people began to show their responses in other ways.
During the plague it also affected the Artists and musicians at the time. Shortly before the plague music was upbeat but then music was played grimly and art became sober to say. The artist were surrounded by the horrible black death, but on the other hand some artist started to express how they felt through art and music. Many of those artist left alive created paintings and woodcuts that showed an angry God and sometimes demon-like creatures shooting arrows of plague in …show more content…
Many people blamed god for this disease and occurrence of the plague and they thought as if the plague was a punishment for their sins. This really messed up people’s confidence in traditional or conventional beliefs and authority, quickly the church started to suffer many people strayed from the church and blamed them for the plague. People wanted answers from the priests and bishops but they couldn’t provide those answers for they did not know themselves, many of the churches finest leaders began to quit to avoid problems. And as they left their replacements were not as educated and so therefore monasteries ran less educated people. Therefore as the church declined so did the peoples hope for